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The actor who played Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park said he was diagnosed with a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma but was “alive and kicking.”

Respondents whose incomes were at or below the federal poverty level reported the most debt.

The findings also show that patients with certain underlying medical conditions have twice the odds as previously healthy people of seeking care for long covid.

Applicants to emergency medicine training programs have plunged 35 percent from the peak in 2021, an abrupt shift for a formerly competitive field.

New data shows that raccoon dogs in a Wuhan market could be linked to the coronavirus’s origins. The animal, related to the fox, can carry diseases communicable to humans.

A sample taken in a Wuhan market in early 2020 holds genetic traces of both the coronavirus and a small canid known as a raccoon dog, scientists report

The bill could be amended, Republican state Rep. Stan McClain said, after he acknowledged that it would prohibit talk of menstrual cycles until sixth grade.

Sienna Vaughn, a 16-year-old high school junior in Texas, died after taking a pill she got from a friend that she thought was Percocet.

The FDA is poised to ease access to the overdose antidote, but experts predict limited impact unless the price comes down.

It marked the third consecutive year the nation’s maternal mortality rate, long the highest among high-income nations, increased.